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February 2016

 

TYPO3 Newsletter - February 2016

Welcome to the new issue of the TYPO3 Newsletter. Here you will find news and interesting facts from the TYPO3 universe.

TYPO3 News

TYPO3 Certification - Current status

typo3blogger.de explains the current status of the development of the new certifications. In addition to the Certified Integrator, there will also be the Certified Editor and the Certified Developer in the future, and further certifications are planned.

New edition of the book "TYPO3 Extbase"

The second edition of the book "TYPO3 Extbase" by Patrick Lobacher and Michael Schams has been updated for TYPO3 7. English edition.

TYPO3 Certified Developer - Preparation for the TYPO3 Association exam

There is now also a preparation book by Patrick Lobacher for the Certified Developer exam.

TYPO3 tips

Delete duplicate FAL entries and references after TYPO3 6.2 upgrade

Useful tip in case something goes wrong when upgrading to TYPO3 6.2.

Get in touch with TYPO3 companions

Marcus Schwemer provides a nice overview of the many ways to get in touch with the TYPO3 community on his very interesting and informative website. The site is generally worth reading!

Video course "TYPO3 7 for editors"

This free video course explains all the steps involved in creating and maintaining content in TYPO3 7 in an easy-to-understand way.

Use translated labels for select-fields in TYPO3

Tip: Translations in drop-down lists with a customized Select-ViewHelper.

"Generate password" button in the TYPO3 backend

Stefan Frömken shows here his procedure to create a "Generate password" button for the password of the backend users in the backend of TYPO3 7 LTS.

Image cropping in TYPO3 backend

In this article, Markus Schwemer introduces the new "Image Cropping" feature of TYPO3 7 LTS and explains how you can customize it in your own extensions.

TYPO3 Caching Framework Basics

Basic knowledge of the TYPO3 caching framework.

Fluid Styled Content - Next Generation TYPO3 Templating

And once again Marcus Schwemer... ;) Here you can learn a lot of useful things about "Fluid Styled Content", the new way of rendering content elements in TYPO3 7 LTS. Once you've used FSC, you won't want to go back to "CSS Styled Content".

TYPO3 CMS 7 - The comprehensive training

From next Monday (29.2.) the new video training by Wolfgang Wagner on TYPO3 7 LTS will be available. Topics: from the installation of TYPO3 to the integration of your own template templates.

TYPO3 Extensions

Calendarize: The slightly better TYPO3 calendar

There are many calendar extensions for TYPO3 - but when it comes to special requirements, you often come up against the limits of these extensions. The Calendarize extension takes a different approach in this respect.

Extension updates in February

A small selection of extensions that were published in TER in February in a new or updated version (in order of publication):
  • Doodle
    by Xavier Perseguers (Causal)
    Integrates Doodle (http://doodle.com) with TYPO3.
  • TypoScript code
    by Alexey Gafiulov, Anton Danilov
    This extension allows you to insert any TypoScript code to a page as a normal content element.
  • Simple download-system with counter and categories
    by Kurt Kunig
    Download system with counter, simple category management, sorting criteria and page browsing in the LIST-view.
  • Fluid Styled Responsive Images
    by Alexander Schnitzler
    Enables creation of responsive images for fluid styled content elements.
  • Dynamic Content Elements (DCE)
    by Armin Ruediger Vieweg
    DCE is an extension for the CMS TYPO3, which creates easily and fast dynamic content elements. It is an alternative to flexible content elements (FCE) but without need of TemplaVoila (TV). Based on Extbase and Fluid.
  • File List
    by Xavier Perseguers
    This extension provides a frontend plugin which shows a list of files and folders in a specified directory on the file system (comparable to Apache directory listing) or using more advanced FAL selectors (categories, collection of files, ...). This extension may also be used for creating image galleries. Default templates are Bootstrap-ready.
  • Metadata and content analysis service
    by Xavier Perseguers (Causal)
    This extension detects and extracts metadata (EXIF / IPTC / XMP / ...) from potentially thousand different file types (such as MS Word/Powerpoint/Excel documents, PDF and images) and bring them automatically and natively to TYPO3 when uploading assets. Works with built-in PHP functions but takes advantage of Apache Tika and other external tools for enhanced metadata extraction.
  • Resize images automatically
    by Xavier Perseguers (Causal)
    Simplify the way your editors may upload their images: no complex local procedure needed, let TYPO3 automatically resize down their huge images/pictures on-the-fly during upload (or using a scheduler task for batch processing) and according to your own business rules (directory/groups). This will highly reduce the footprint on your server and speed-up response time if lots of images are rendered (e.g., in a gallery). Features an EXIF/IPTC extractor to ensure metadata may be used by the FAL indexer even if not preserved upon resizing.
  • Tabbed Content and Pages
    by Stefan Galinski
    Create tab based content elements and pages easily and flexible with configurable mouseover handling, animations, ajax and autoplay features! It requires mootools or jquery.
  • Aimeos web store
    by Aimeos
    Aimeos is a fast, flexible and usability optimized store system and e-commerce solution available in multiple languages (also available as TYPO3 distribution). Several plugins e.g. for facetted search, product listing, detail view, basket, checkout process and other parts of a store are available. Furthermore, Aimeos offers powerful interfaces to integrate CRM and ERP systems as well as payment and delivery service providers
  • Community
    by Tymoteusz Motylewski
    A flexible community / social network system based on Extbase and Fluid. Friends (buddies), messages, user profile, wall, gallery, notification service, and a lot more.
  • Calendar Base
    by Mario Matzulla, Jeff Segars, Franz Koch, Thomas Kowtsch
    A calendar combining all the functions of the existing calendar extensions plus adding some new features. It is based on the ical standard
  • TYPO3 profiler
    by CERDAN Yohann [Site-nGo]
    TYPO3 profiler store the slowest queries and parsetimes of page generation. It can help you to optimize your website performance.
  • Address List
    by tt_address Development Team
    Displays a list of addresses from an address table on the page.
  • Seminar Manager
    by Oliver Klee
    This extension allows you to create and manage a list of seminars, workshops, lectures, theater performances and other events, allowing front-end users to sign up. FE users also can create and edit events.
  • Faceted Search
    by Christian Buelter (team.inmedias)
    Faceted fulltext search for TYPO3. Fast, flexible and easy to use. Very easy to install. Fast (tested with over 200.000 records) and flexible (you can write your own indexers). Indexes content directly from the databases. Visit kesearch.de for further information and documentation.
  • Newsletter
    by Ecodev
    Send any pages as Newsletter and provide statistics on opened emails and clicked links.
  • Questionnaire
    by kennziffer.com
    Easily create any type of questionnaire, survey, poll, quiz or eLearning. The results may be evaluated and displayed graphically at any time.
  • Unroll TYPO3 save buttons
    by Markus Klein
    Shows the save buttons in the TYPO3 BE next to each other instead of the dropdown.
  • powermail
    by Powermail Development Team
    Powermail is a well-known, editor-friendly, powerful and easy to use mailform extension with a lots of features (spam prevention, marketing information, optin, ajax submit, diagram analysis, etc...)
  • Front End User Registration
    by Stanislas Rolland
    A self-registration variant of Kasper Skrhj's Front End User Admin extension.
  • Store System
    by Franz Holzinger
    New versions at ttproducts.de. Documented in E-Book "Der TYPO3-Webshop" - Shop with listing in multiple languages, with order tracking, photo gallery, DAM, product variants, credit card payment and bank accounts, bill, creditpoint, voucher system and gift certificates.
  • femanager
    by femanager dev team
    TYPO3 Frontend User Registration and Management based on Extbase and Fluid and on TYPO3 7.6 and the possibility to extend it. Extension basicly works like sr_feuser_register
  • Powermail Conditions
    by Alex Kellner
    Add conditions (via AJAX) to powermail (2.9 or newer) forms for fields and pages
  • Useful information in reports module
    by CERDAN Yohann
    Useful information in the reports module: xclass, ajax, cliKeys, eID, general status of the system (encoding, DB, php vars...), hooks, compare local and TER extension (diff), used content type, used plugins, ExtDirect... It can really help you during migration or new existing project (to have global reports of the system).
  • Email Obfuscator
    by Thomas Pronold
    Replaces the default email address spam protection with a better one. The email obfuscation is more randomized, safer and more userfriendly for the website visitor.
  • Datec Timeline
    by Philipp Roensch
    Adds a lightweight timeline tool.
This list is only a selection of interesting extensions, not a recommendation or rating. The extensions have not been developed or tested by us.

events

General Assembly 2016

The Annual General Meeting of the TYPO3 Association will take place this year on April 6 at the Unperfekthaus in Essen.

Miscellaneous

Tool for regular expressions

Regular expressions are almost a science in themselves. This useful tool makes learning a little easier.

The future of loading CSS

The fact that CSS can block the rendering of a website is nothing new. In the future, however, there could be a few changes to the way CSS is loaded and processed in browsers.

rgb.to - A useful color converter

Screen designers and front-end developers know how to juggle different color systems. This useful tool can help.

Pure CSS Responsive Flex Menu

A responsive menu without JavaScript.
 

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